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Bing, Yahoo! Search adverts serve up malware

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Sep

2011

Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent. Some of the search terms used: “FireFox Download” “Download Skype” “Download Adobe Player” As you can see, they’re not particularly complicated or unusual searches […]

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Which browser is the most secure?

15

Sep

2011

Recently, NSS Labs, a US-based testing company has performed a comparative review of several Internet browsers in order to determine which one provides the best protection against socially engineered malware. Interestingly, the results seem to indicate that Internet Explorer 9 provides the best protection rates of all the tested products (which included Firefox 4 and […]

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Microsoft patches 15 important vulnerabilities

15

Sep

2011

This month, Microsoft issued 5 security bulletins covering 15 vulnerabilities in Excel and Windows. These updates are considered important rather than critical, as by the time of the patch there was no malicious code exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild. Adobe also released a security bulletin patching 13 vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader. Websense® Security Labs highly recommends […]

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